Prison Architect updated with more free content, needs a fix for it running on Linux

Now that Paradox own the rights to Prison Architect and Double Eleven are in charge of development, they're continuing the free updates.

The Slammer update was released yesterday and one of the major changes is an overhaul to Deployment. The presentation of visuals of the interface were improved so you can see your prison, you can assign Armed Guards and Dog Handlers to patrols and zones, you can have 2 different intersecting patrol routes plus routes and zones can be prioritized.

Double Eleven also added in some fresh content to play with too:

• New Walls & Doors: Yutani Wall (Sci Fi), Visitor's Door, Secure Door (with a flap to deliver food trays to prisoners inside a cell), coloured Fence Gates.
• New Floors: Mud, Grate, and Solaco (Sci Fi - goes great with the Yutani Wall).
• New Objects: Table (Small) Bench (Small), Bleachers, Bush, Trees (Snowy Conifer, Palm), Lights (Flood Light, Street Light, Wall Light), Shower Pillar, Ironing Board (Small), Office Chair, Door Mat.
• New furniture such as new chairs, short benches, short tables will fulfill room requirements.
• New Jungle plot and Snowbound plot options added, to start a new prison on.
• New Guard Pavillion towers are unlocked for players who sign up for a Paradox account.

There's plenty of other changes like new hotkeys for cycling through options in in-game item menus, more rotations added for older objects, the ability to easily move objects by double clicking and after you move it a worker will sort it, the option to start with everything researched and so on.

The update didn't come without issues on Linux though, as it seems to open the new Paradox Launcher and then instantly quit which isn't great. Although, this problem might be just for newer distributions.

FIX: To make the Paradox Launcher work with the Steam version, add this as launch option (right click -> "Properties" -> "Set Launch Options…"):

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libc.so.6 %command%

That will make the Paradox Launcher work fine.

If you wish to completely bypass the launcher make sure it has the steam_appid.txt file which it's missing inside the folder where you installed it, all it needs inside is "233450" (the ID of Prison Architect on Steam). To find the folder, right click on the game and go to "Properties" and then -> hit the "Local Files" tab and press "Browse Local Files…". Once done, just run the game directly to bypass the launcher. I've sent a message to Paradox today about the issues.

You can get Prison Architect from Humble Store, GOG and Steam.